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@molly0xfff on AI vs. scraping vs. copyright protection vs. openness. Very thoughtful (as usual) and worth reading.

Also included, this gem (together with other thoughts about sustainable business models):
«Many AI “visionaries” seem perfectly content to promise that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner, but claim that attribution is somehow a permanently unsolvable problem.»

#AI #GenAI #LLM #CreativeCommons #Sharing
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This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Marcel Waldvogel

@helma Let’s be clear though: there is still a mountain of difference between, say, an AI company training their proprietary, commercial model on MIT-licensed code (perfectly legal) and doing so on AGPL-licensed code (breach of license). Let’s not abandon the tools we have. Just because they’re breaking the laws and contracts that exist today doesn’t mean we should abandon them for future ones that they may or may not be bothered to obey. You don’t let a thief define what does or doesn’t constitute theft. You enforce the law. That said, I realise how utterly naïve that sounds as we stand mired in technofascism. So maybe what we do is destroy the looms.
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in reply to Aral Balkan

@aral @helma if AI training is fair use, then training on AGPL licensed code is permissible
in reply to Molly White

@helma Isn’t it moot anyway? The basic truth of it is that billionaires and trillion dollar corporations can do whatever the fuck they want and we can all just pound sand. (The odd Luigi, notwithstanding.) Laws do not apply to these assholes in any meaningful way. But, hey, I’ll still go on licensing my code under AGPL like an idiot anyway, telling myself it matters.
in reply to Aral Balkan

@aral @helma Found @junebug 's take in my echo chamber next to your post, Aral: slime.global/@junebug/11416734…

Corporations are anti-social when they AI-scrape, don't contribute back to FOSS or use public infrastructure and don't pay tax. They may thrive on the same welfare states that they suffocate, and similar can happen (has happened?) with the open web.

Acknowledging that this is a false choice:

"yes, like that, but under fair terms”
vs
"oh like that? well gloves are off!"